Recent content by jimmytheone

I don't suppose this is scientific enough to be of much use but I just tried out my old linear pf and found that though the camera seemed to focus just as happily with or without it - even with one subject that it had probelms focusing on at all, being nearly all reflection - it did feel the...

Pookeyhead - You're thinking the same as me. The flare in the photos means more to me than the slight variations between some of the graphs, and I'd have given it more weight in the rankings. Mind you, having tried to understand the plots, the B+Ws appear to be less efficient than some others at...

I think it's worth trying the old filter first - could save £50! I'll bear you in mind if it doesn't work out.

Thanks again. I'm sure you're both right in that any of the better ones will prove more than a match for my lenses and I'm worrying unnecessarily, and I certainly wouldn't buy an uncoated filter; I remember wearing uncoated spectacles and spending much of the time looking at reflections of...

Many thanks for your reply. The extra 'speed' of the Hoya was certainly a big attraction and Hoya were the go-to filters in a previous life - I've taken a long, long break from photography and just bought my very first digital camera. I could see myself leaving it on most of the time, especialy...

I'm new here, so be gentle... Hope it's not too late to add to this debate but I've been looking at the lenstip.com test that so many people refer to and find myself drawn to the B+W filters simply because of the almost complete lack of additional flare around the lamps in the test photos...